[this is partial sheet of paper and some text might well be missing]
44 Queen Ann St. 1
Thursday evening
Dear Sir
I have described all the essential parts of my process 2 in a paper 3 read to the Royal Society 4 today, & which will be given I believe in the Literary Gazette 5 of next Saturday. Of my former paper read on the 31st January, I will send you a printed copy.
As you cannot command sunshine in London, I would recommend your making trial of your galvanic light, 6 since I know that it was found to succeed with Mr Daniell’s 7 battery. the
The experiment which is most likely to interest the public is to form the picture of some simple object, as for instance a pattern of lace, by the light of your galvanic battery, which I should think would succeed & if it does so you can always have it at command; whereas the sun would be sure to fail you in a climate like this & with our smoky atmosphere –
Experiments with the Camera obscura 8 would not answer for public exhibition.
I remain Yours very truly
Henry Fox Talbot
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